CVE-2001-0409
vim development group vim: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
vim (aka gvim) allows local users to modify files being edited by other users via a symlink attack on the backup and swap files, when the victim is editing the file in a world writable directory.
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vim_development_group:vim
References
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-014.0.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_012_vim.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6628
- http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-014.0.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_012_vim.html